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Despite profits being up nearly 50 percent from those in the period a year earlier, the firm’s stock closed down more than 2.5 percent amid worries that much of the profit came from moves not likely to be replicated.

Goldman Sachs officials met with confrontation and blunt questioning as senators from both parties challenged them over their aggressive marketing of mortgage investments at a time when the housing market was already starting to falter.